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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1982. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 46-47).

Resumo: As ações do responsável pela segurança de vôo, em lançamentos de foguetes, são fundamentais para minimizar riscos relacionados à vida, ao meio ambiente e a bens materiais. Nesse contexto está incluída a atividade de cálculo da posição do lançador, para compensação da influência do vento na trajetória de foguetes nãocontrolados. Atualmente, a execução dessa tarefa e a realimentação das informações referentes ao posicionamento do lançador não são realizadas de forma automática. Esse é um dos motivos pelos quais é necessário realizar o ajuste final do lançador, aproximadamente cinco a sete minutos antes do lançamento. No intervalo de tempo até o lançamento, o vento pode mudar de velocidade e direção, promovendo situação com potencial suficiente para causar desvio na trajetória do foguete, com conseqüente aumento da dispersão do seu ponto de impacto. O objetivo desse trabalho é propor uma arquitetura de sistema para automatizar o ajuste da posição em azimute e elevação de lançadores de foguetes de sondagem não-controlados. Os ensaios realizados com o protótipo de lançador mostraram que a proposta deste trabalho é capaz de realizar automaticamente o posicionamento de lançadores durante campanhas de lançamento, para compensar a influência do vento na trajetória do foguete, com o objetivo de diminuir a dispersão de impacto de foguetes não-controlados. / Abstract: The actions taken by the person responsible for flight safety in rocket launch are fundamental to minimize risks related to life, environment and material assets. This context includes the calculation of the launcher's position to compensate for wind influence on the unguided rocket trajectory. Currently, the accomplishment of such task and the feedback of data regarding launcher's positioning are not performed automatically. This is one of the reasons why it is necessary to make the final adjustment of the launcher approximately five to seven minutes before such launch. Within the time interval until the launch, wind speed and direction may change and give rise to a situation with enough potential to cause a deviation in the rocket's trajectory with the consequential increase in the dispersion of its point of impact. The purpose of this work is to propose a system architecture able to automate the adjustment of the position in azimuth and the elevation of unguided sounding rocket launchers. The tests made on the prototype launcher showed that the proposal of this work can automatically make the positioning of the launchers during launch campaigns to compensate for wind influence on the rocket's trajectory in order to reduce dispersion of impact of unguided rockets. / Orientador: Mauro Hugo Mathias / Coorientador: Francisco Carlos Parquet Bizarria / Banca: José Elias Tomazini / Banca: João Zangrandi Filho / Banca: Hilton Cleber Pietrobom / Banca: Viktor A. Pastoukhov / Doutor

A high-resolution radio echo sounder operating at a frequency of 840 MHz has been developed for sounding of small and medium-sized polar glaciers and ice caps. The sounder uses a compact, high-gain antenna which improves the system performance, suppresses valley wall echoes and simplifies operation from light aircraft. Successful field trials were carried out on the Rusty, Trapridge and Hazard Glaciers, Yukon Territory, Canada. Results of airborne surveys compare well with ice depths obtained from earlier ground-based soundings on the Rusty and Trapridge Glaciers. The maximum ice thickness encountered was 200 m on Hazard Glacier. Owing to the high operating frequency, random scattering from inhomogeneities within the ice is a major cause of signal degradation. For this reason the sounder cannot penetrate great thicknesses of temperate or debris-rich ice. Spatial averaging, an immediate result of operating from a moving platform, reduces the effects of back-scattered "clutter. " Results of ground-based tests on the Hazard Glacier yield a value for ftan 8 = 0.26 at -50C, in agreement with predicted values. The total received power and the echo details have both been found to be very sensitive to small (<<I0 cm) changes in antennae position. Large fluctuations in power, caused by roughness at or near the ice/air surface, prevented using single coverage data to detect birefringence in glacier ice. The results also indicate that the standard photographic records should be replaced by a recording medium capable of storing more precise and accessible data. A storage medium such as magnetic tape should not degrade the radar data, and would at the same time relieve a data processing burden. / Science, Faculty of / Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of / Graduate

ITC/USA 2006 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Second Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 23-26, 2006 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, California / This paper describes the design and successful development of an acoustic modem for potential use in underwater ecological sensor networks. The presentation includes theoretical study, design and development of both software and hardware, laboratory experiments, full-scale field tests, and the documentation and analysis of field-test results.

ITC/USA 2005 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-First Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 24-27, 2005 / Riviera Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / This paper presents the results of land-based SHF channel modeling experiments. Channel modeling data were collected at Edwards AFB, California at S-Band, X-Band and Ku-band. Frequency domain analysis techniques were used to evaluate candidate channel models. A graphical user interface (GUI) was developed to search for the optimum channel parameters. The model parameters corresponding to different frequencies were compared for multipath events captured at approximately the same locations. A general trend was observed where the magnitude of the first multipath reflection decreased as frequency increased and the delay remained relatively unchanged.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 25-28, 1999 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / Initial results of wideband channel sounding experiments sponsored by the Advanced Range Telemetry (ARTM) program are presented. Data collected at Edwards EAFB during the Winter 1998-1999, are analyzed in the frequency domain to estimate the number, strength, and delays of the significant multipath reflections observed during the experiments. We observe that the channel is adequately modeled using two or three multipath reflections. The multipath fade events are correlated with recorded bit error rates and transmitter location to provide a comprehensive overview of the channel characteristics. Summaries from two test flights are included where it is seen that the 2- and 3-ray channel models provide excellent models for the data. In general, the 3-ray model captures the essential features of the multipath interference. In this model the first multipath is a strong specular reflection with relative amplitude greater than 0.5 and relative delay in the 30 to 70 ns range. The second multipath is a much weaker reflection with relative amplitude less than 0.5 and relative delay in the 175 to 325 ns range.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 23-26, 2000 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, California / This paper uses ARTM channel sounding data collected at Edwards Air Force Base to investigate the dependency between the characteristics of frequency selective multipath fading and carrier frequency and ground based received antenna diameter. Channel model parameters are obtained from data sets measured at different frequencies and various ground based antenna diameters. The analysis shows that the multipath characteristics do not statistically change between the L-band and S-band carrier frequencies, but do change with antenna diameter. Furthermore, Flight 18 data shows that antenna diversity may be a useful technique to reduce data loss from multipath fading.